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File Formatsfd(4)


NAME

 fd - file descriptor files

DESCRIPTION

 

These files, conventionally called /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, /dev/fd/2, and so on, refer to files accessible through file descriptors. If file descriptor n is open, these two system calls have the same effect:

 
fd = open("/dev/fd/n",mode);
fd = dup(n);

On these files creat(2) is equivalent to open, and mode is ignored. As with dup, subsequent reads or writes on fd fail unless the original file descriptor allows the operations.

For convenience in referring to standard input, standard output, and standard error, an additional set of names is provided: /dev/stdin is a synonym for /dev/fd/0, /dev/stdout for /dev/fd/1, and /dev/stderr for /dev/fd/2.

SEE ALSO

 

creat(2), dup(2), open(2)

DIAGNOSTICS

 

open(2) returns -1 and EBADF if the associated file descriptor is not open.


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 3 Jul 1990

 
      
      
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